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Relationship between exposure to other people’s gambling and adolescent gambling

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Author(s): Freund, Megan ; Noble, Natasha ; Hill, David ; White, Victoria ; Leigh, Lucy ; Scully, Maree ; Sanson-Fisher, Robert ; Lambkin, David

Journal: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

Year Published: 2022

Date Added: September 26, 2022

It is common for adolescents to engage in a range of gambling activities. Some adolescents may also develop problem gambling. It has been proposed that adolescents’ behaviours are influenced by people in their social spheres. If people they know gamble, they are also more likely to gamble themselves. The researchers examined exposure to other people’s gambling and adolescents’ own gambling behaviours among Australian adolescents. Data were from the 2017 Australian Secondary Students’ Alcohol and Drug Survey. The researchers found that having a parent/caregiver, brother/sister, best friend, another relative, or someone else the adolescents knew who had gambled in the past month made it more likely the adolescents had gambled in the past month. It also made it more likely that they had engaged in hard gambling activities and be classified as at-risk or problem gambling.


Citation: Freund, M., Noble, N., Hill, D., White, V., Leigh, L., Scully, M., Sanson-Fisher, R., & Lambkin, D. (2022). Exposure to other people’s gambling and gambling behaviors in Australian secondary school students. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0000854

Article DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0000854

Keywords: adolescent gambling ; adolescents ; family ; family relationships ; gambling ; gambling behaviours ; gambling exposure ; involvement ; peer influence ; peers ; students

Topics: Children and Youth ; Family and Friends ; Gambling Exposure ; Priority Populations

Conceptual Framework Factors:   Social - Family and Peer Gambling Involvement ; Social - Social Demographics ; Psychological - Lifespan Development ; Gambling Exposure ; Social Factors

Study Design: Descriptive: Survey

Geographic Coverage: Australia

Study Population: Australian secondary school students (n = 6,377; over 7000 students responded to the survey, but some students did not answer the gambling questions and were excluded)

Sampling Procedure: Data came from the 2017 Australian Secondary Students’ Alcohol and Drug (ASSAD) Survey for the states of Victoria and Queensland. A random sample of schools, stratified by sector (government, Catholic, independent) were selected to participate in the survey. Within each participating school, classes of students in Years 7 to 12 were randomly selected to complete the ASSAD survey.

Study Funding:

This study was funded by the Victoria Responsible Gambling Foundation with infrastructure support from the Hunter Medical Research Institute.

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